Charlene Ripley
@charleneripley.bsky.social
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Trump's deal to sell TikTok won't just enrich his billionaire pal Larry Ellison.
It also gives UAE investment firm MGX — a key business partner of the Trump family's crypto company — a major ownership stake in TikTok.
Everything is for sale.
It also gives UAE investment firm MGX — a key business partner of the Trump family's crypto company — a major ownership stake in TikTok.
Everything is for sale.
December 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Trump's deal to sell TikTok won't just enrich his billionaire pal Larry Ellison.
It also gives UAE investment firm MGX — a key business partner of the Trump family's crypto company — a major ownership stake in TikTok.
Everything is for sale.
It also gives UAE investment firm MGX — a key business partner of the Trump family's crypto company — a major ownership stake in TikTok.
Everything is for sale.
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Not going to repost the President’s comments re the death of Rob Reiner but it’s clear our commander in chief is deeply unwell.
December 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Not going to repost the President’s comments re the death of Rob Reiner but it’s clear our commander in chief is deeply unwell.
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Donald Trump cut funding for pediatric cancer research.
September 28, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Donald Trump cut funding for pediatric cancer research.
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At a doctor’s office — with no warrants, masked, no ID 😳
What are we doing? 🇺🇸
What are we doing? 🇺🇸
July 9, 2025 at 1:12 AM
At a doctor’s office — with no warrants, masked, no ID 😳
What are we doing? 🇺🇸
What are we doing? 🇺🇸
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Your Family: 3 dolls and 5 pencils
Trump’s Family: $2.9 billion
Any questions?
Trump’s Family: $2.9 billion
Any questions?
Trump family's net worth has increased by $2.9 billion thanks to crypto investments, new report says
As the Trump family's crypto ventures increase their wealth, the president's administration pauses a dozen federal crypto probes.
www.cbsnews.com
May 7, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Your Family: 3 dolls and 5 pencils
Trump’s Family: $2.9 billion
Any questions?
Trump’s Family: $2.9 billion
Any questions?
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STAVRIDIS: “.. It is worth remembering how WW II began in the Pacific: with trade sanctions that cut off Japan from vital resources — notably oil, steel and rubber. .. China is now starting to cut off supplies .. over which it has a virtual global chokehold ..”
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
April 20, 2025 at 12:22 PM
STAVRIDIS: “.. It is worth remembering how WW II began in the Pacific: with trade sanctions that cut off Japan from vital resources — notably oil, steel and rubber. .. China is now starting to cut off supplies .. over which it has a virtual global chokehold ..”
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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i was told we are drastically cutting costs, everything from cancer research to meals on wheels to weather forecasts, because the country is on the verge of bankruptcy
Trump, Hegseth promise record $1 trillion Pentagon budget
The surprise announcement comes as the Defense Department prepares to lay off tens of thousands of civilians.
www.politico.com
April 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
i was told we are drastically cutting costs, everything from cancer research to meals on wheels to weather forecasts, because the country is on the verge of bankruptcy
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1/ Just as a reminder, we WERE onshoring a bunch of manufacturing jobs, thanks to the CHIPS and IRA acts. Those jobs were spread around the country, many/most in red districts.
Trump trying to kill them all.
www.jackconness.com/ira-chips-in...
Trump trying to kill them all.
www.jackconness.com/ira-chips-in...
April 7, 2025 at 3:00 AM
1/ Just as a reminder, we WERE onshoring a bunch of manufacturing jobs, thanks to the CHIPS and IRA acts. Those jobs were spread around the country, many/most in red districts.
Trump trying to kill them all.
www.jackconness.com/ira-chips-in...
Trump trying to kill them all.
www.jackconness.com/ira-chips-in...
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April 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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I’ve now watched this clip like 10 times and it’s instant first ballot hall of fame. One of the most comically out of touch things I’ve ever heard heard from a public official.
Trump’s commerce secretary Howard Lutnick says if Social Security skipped a check, his mother-in-law wouldn’t complain—and if you would, it indicates you are probably a fraudster. Insane.
March 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I’ve now watched this clip like 10 times and it’s instant first ballot hall of fame. One of the most comically out of touch things I’ve ever heard heard from a public official.
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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
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Thank you former Administrator Andrew Natsios for setting the record straight! Friends please send this to REPUBLICAN Congressional offices #SaveUSAID
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
‘What Elon Musk Said Is a Bold-Faced Lie’
A former Republican director of USAID says the agency is critical to U.S. interests and can’t be abolished or folded into the State Department.
www.politico.com
February 5, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Thank you former Administrator Andrew Natsios for setting the record straight! Friends please send this to REPUBLICAN Congressional offices #SaveUSAID
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Remember when we said
Trump is going to do project 2025 and everyone said “no, he’s not.”
Turns out …
Trump is going to do project 2025 and everyone said “no, he’s not.”
Turns out …
February 1, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Remember when we said
Trump is going to do project 2025 and everyone said “no, he’s not.”
Turns out …
Trump is going to do project 2025 and everyone said “no, he’s not.”
Turns out …
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This should be 25th amendment level conduct. The president ordered water to be released from a random dam in California nowhere near the wildfires and then claimed it would help. That’s literally Mad King behavior.
They posted an update confirming it was from Trump's order. sjvwater.org/trumps-emerg...
Trump’s emergency water order responsible for water dump from Tulare County lakes – SJV Water
The sudden announcement Thursday by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that Kaweah and Success lakes would immediately begin dumping water was in response Trump’s emergency water order responsible for w...
sjvwater.org
February 1, 2025 at 1:58 AM
This should be 25th amendment level conduct. The president ordered water to be released from a random dam in California nowhere near the wildfires and then claimed it would help. That’s literally Mad King behavior.
This seems like a problem.
This is nightmarish. Musk wants direct control over the tools that turn on and off the federal government’s $6 trillion disbursement system. The nonpartisan employee overseeing them retired in protest. Now the path is open for the system to be used as an ideological weapon.
Giftlink: wapo.st/4jH7XYa
Giftlink: wapo.st/4jH7XYa
January 31, 2025 at 4:21 PM
This seems like a problem.
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If the FAA director got fired over a business beef AND there was an air traffic controller hiring freeze despite huge shortages AND a chaotic blitz to hollow out federal bureaucracy, and then within a week the first American airliner crashes in 16 years, you would be insane not to talk about it all.
January 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
If the FAA director got fired over a business beef AND there was an air traffic controller hiring freeze despite huge shortages AND a chaotic blitz to hollow out federal bureaucracy, and then within a week the first American airliner crashes in 16 years, you would be insane not to talk about it all.
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Pete Buttigieg nails it.
January 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Pete Buttigieg nails it.
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Trump has rescinded a Biden executive order calling for the development of policies to lower drug costs for people in Medicare and Medicaid.
January 21, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Trump has rescinded a Biden executive order calling for the development of policies to lower drug costs for people in Medicare and Medicaid.
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The Congressional GOP and the Supreme Court have truly created a monster: Trump knows he faces zero accountability from impeachment or prosecution, and now doesn’t even have to face voters again. It’s going to be kleptocracy on an unprecedented scale.
NYT: Trump begins selling a new crypto token, in a move assailed as an ethical breach. “It is literally cashing in on the presidency — creating a financial instrument so people can transfer money to the president’s family” one ethics lawyer said
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
Trump begins selling a new crypto token, in a move assailed as an ethical breach.
www.nytimes.com
January 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The Congressional GOP and the Supreme Court have truly created a monster: Trump knows he faces zero accountability from impeachment or prosecution, and now doesn’t even have to face voters again. It’s going to be kleptocracy on an unprecedented scale.